Jesus Wept (John 11:35)

When Jesus was on the road to Canaan, He came upon a man who was weeping.
     "Why do you weep, my son?" Jesus asked him.
     "Because I am blind," the man told him, so Jesus touched him and he could see.
     Further down the road, Jesus came upon another man who was weeping.
     "And why do you weep, my son?" Jesus again asked.
    "Because, my Lord, I have leprosy," the man explained, so Jesus touched HIM and he was healed.
     Still further down the road, Jesus came upon a third man and he was weeping most bitterly of all.
     "Tell me, my son," Jesus said softly, "why do YOU weep?"
     "Because," the man answered, "my widowed father has come to live with me in his old age."
     And so Jesus sat by him and they BOTH wept together.
     Thus sayeth the Lord.
 
 

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The Dragonfly Statue

My wife loves gardening.

     Unfortunately, she recently hurt her leg so now she's temporarily forced to do her second favorite thing: spend time with me. We were enjoying a hot cup of coffee together in the outside patio one morning, when my elderly father overheard her complain about the small decorative dragonfly statue in her garden.

     "It's broken?" my dad asked. "I'll fix it."

     One of its wings had broken off, causing it to look like Jim Croce's main character who "looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone" in his song You Don't Mess Around With Jim. My father's solution was to break off the opposing wing to give the poor dragonfly a more aesthetically pleasing look.

     My wife leaned her head confidentially closer to mine.

     "Don't tell dad I hurt my leg," she whispered.

 

 

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